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03-21-2008, 09:44 AM
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Acorn
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Join Date: Feb 2008
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Bare Ground herbicide?
I will be spraying in various gravel areas (parking lots, storage bldg gravel roads, etc). What EXPERIENCE does anyone have with any of the various herbicides? What seems to work...and what seems to not have all season long control?
I even heard that Snapshot, not really a bare ground herbicide, BUT...had very good control for about 8 months and costs less than say Oust, Journey, Pramitol, etc.
Any advice on what has season long control and fairly economical and fairly easy to put down (some require alot of water that is not available on some sites) ?
Thanks for your help!
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03-21-2008, 12:39 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Middle of Ohio
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if the area is free from roots and plant life, you could sterilize it and get ~5 year control from most anything that grows.
Otherwise, id just go with snapshot or similar.
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03-21-2008, 01:20 PM
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Hey Mac,
These gravel areas just get some volunteer weeds, i.e. dandelion, crab/goose/quack grasses, purslane, henbit, etc. All of the usual soil sterlizers (Oust, Escort, Pramitol, Spike, Arsenal, Velpar, Telar, etc) only last one growing season, if you're lucky. Is there anything that could last 5 years?
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03-22-2008, 02:03 PM
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I dont have experience with it, but it was my understanding that Sahara would give you multi year control. I just did some brief googling and it appears it is only labeled for an entire year.
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03-26-2008, 09:03 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Long Island, NY
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A pesticide applicators license is need to apply pesticides......unless it is your own property...
To Post kill........Roundup.......can add to the mix Surflan...
For bedding, as well as gravel.........Treflan
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03-27-2008, 06:29 PM
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Hi Glan,
Yes I have three licenses issued from the State Chemist Office. One for ornamentals, one for lawns & one 6A for right-of-ways. I am familiar with Round UP, Surflan & Treflan, as well as all the 'real' soil sterilizer's I listed previously.
However, I do not have alot of experience using many of these sterilizers & was just wanting to get some info about them from someone who has used them (type of sterilizer, success rate, application techniques, tips, etc.).
Anyone out there with experience using any bare ground sterilizers?
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03-30-2008, 03:35 PM
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Sterilizers..........Oh....no.....sorry. I have no clue.
Here on the Island........I've never heard of anyone doing any sterilizing.....not even the farms out east.
What I have done a couple times......stretch plastic over the ground and tuck into the edges into the ground....seen that only but a couple times at some growers out East.
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